United Nations A/AC.265/2006/INF/2

General Assembly Distr.: General 16 August 2006

Original: English

Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities Eighth session New York, 14-25 August 2006

List of participants*

Afghanistan Mr. Ravan A. G. Farhadi Mr. M. Yunusu Bazel

Mr. Mohammad Ali Mr. Abdul Madjied Danishyar Albania Algeria Mr. Youcef Yousfi Mr. Ali Nabaoui Zarougui Ms. Salima Abdelhak Mrs. Yousria Sendid-Berrah

Andorra Ms. Jelena Pià-Comella Ms. Sabrina Pujol-Elmergui Angola

Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Mr. César Mayoral Mr. Martín García Moritán Mr. Marcelo Suárez Salvia Ms. María Luz Melon Mrs. María Verónica Reina Mrs. Elena Dal Bo Mrs. Rosa Romero Mr. Enrique Sarfati

* The cut-off date for issuance of the present document was 15 August 2006. Information on participants received thereafter will be issued in addenda.

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Armenia Australia Mr. Matt Minogue Ms. Kelisiana Thynne Mr. Ben Wallace Mr. Graeme Innes Ms. Rosemary Kayess Ms. Joan Kneen Mr. Lyndon Kayess Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Mr. Salman Mansoor Darbass Mr. Abdulla Janahi Bangladesh Mr. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury Mr. Muhammad Ali Sorcar Mr. Tareq Md. Ariful Islam Ms. Ishrat Jahan Ahmed Mr. Monsur Ahmed Choudhuri Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Mrs. Janine Coye-Felson Ms. Dina S. Shoman Ms. Gianni Avila Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Mr. Miloš Prica Mrs. Mirsada Čolaković Miss Maja Ramljak Mr. Željko Vukobratović Mr. Plamenko Priganica Mrs. Nerina Čevra Botswana Brazil Mrs. Lúcia Maria Maierá Ms. Izabel Maria Madeira de Loureiro Maior Mr. Pedro Cardoso

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Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Mr. Michel Kafando Mr. Macaire Kaboré Mr. Inoussa Balbone Mrs. Jacqueline Oubida Mr. Antoine Somdah Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Mr. Martin Belinga-Eboutou Mr. Iya Tidjani Mrs. Cathérine Mahouve Same Canada Mr. John Hannaford Mr. Henri-Paul Normandin Ms. Jeanette Sautner Ms. Marthe St-Louis Ms. Nell Stewart Ms. Erin Brady Mr. Paul Sadler Mr. Vangelis Nikias Mr. Joseph Laberge Ms. Maya Bhusari Mr. Steve Estey Ms. Dulcie McCallum Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile Mr. Alfredo Labbé Mr. Álvaro Arévalo Mrs. Leonor Cifuentes Mrs. María Soledad Cisternas China Ms. Zhang Dan Mr. Zhang Guozhong Mr. Qiao Huijun Ms. Li Xiaomei Mr. Guo Xiaofeng Mr. Wang Zhijiang Ms. Wang Dan

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Colombia Mrs. Ana Carlina Plazas Mrs. Martha Lucía Moreno Fajardo Mr. Carlos Alberto Parra Dussan Mr. Enrique Efrain King Garcés Mrs. Diana Gutiérrez de Piñeres Comoros Congo Costa Rica Mrs. María Elena Chassoul Mr. Raúl Weisleder Mr. Jorge Ballestero Mrs. Roxana Stupp Mr. Rodrigo Jiménez Côte d’Ivoire Croatia Mr. Amir Muharemi Ms. Vesna Škulić Ms. Tatjana Kralj Mr. Ivan Mutavdžić Ms. Martina Grubiša Cuba Cyprus Ms. Penelope Erotokritou Czech Republic Ms. Janina Hřebíčková Ms. Stanislava Makovcová Ms. Dagmar Novohradská Mr. Pavel Ptáčník Ms. Petra Ali Doláková Mr. Jan Ptáčník Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Mr. Diego Cordovez Mr. Rodrigo Riofrío Ms. Silvia Espíndola Ms. Jacqueline Silva Paredes

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Egypt Mr. Maged A. Abdelaziz Mr. Khaled Elbakly Mr. Mohamed Elbadri Ms. Namira Negm El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Mr. Mohammed Mealin Ali Mr. Asefa Ashenengo Agago Mr. Kasahun Yibeltal Sahilu Mr. Haileselassie Getachew

Fiji Finland Ms. Kirsti Lintonen Ms. Heli Kanerva Ms. Ritva Vuorento Ms. Riitta-Maija Jouttimäki Ms. Viveca Arrhenius Ms. Satu Kaskinen Ms. Leena Leikas Mr. Janne Jokinen Ms. Kirsti Pohjankukka Ms. Pirkko Mahlamäki Ms. Mikaela Dahlblom Ms. Heidi-Maria Helenius Ms. Erna Osara Ms. Jaana Mikkola

France Mr. François Vandeville Mr. Philippe Bertoux Mr. Fabien Fieschi Mr. Guillaume Delvallée Mr. Patrick Monod-Gayraud Mrs. Hélène Leyland Ms. Alexia Verdier Gabon Gambia

Georgia

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Germany Mr. Thomas Matussek Ms. Karin Evers-Meyer Mr. Franz Thoennes Mr. Torsten Einstmann Ms. Theresia Degener Mr. Matthis Plettendorf Ms. Eva Ullrich Mr. Karl Hermann Haack Mr. Martin Frick Ms. Sonja Kreibich Mr. Jochen von Bernstorff Mr. Alexander Quegwer Ms. Stefanie Pagel Ms. Heike Schwier Ms. Martina Niessen Ms. Sonja Braun Mr. Farid El Kholy Ghana Nana Effah-Apenteng Mr. Paul Yaw Essel Ms. Divina Adjoa Seanedzu Greece

Grenada Guatemala Mr. Jorge Skinner-Klée Mr. José Alberto Briz Gutiérrez Ms. Connie Taracena Ms. Silvia Quan Mr. Ronaldo Galeano Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Mr. George Wilfred Talbot Mr. Troy Torrington Ms. Bibi Ally Haiti

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Honduras Ms. Dayana Martínez Burke Mrs. Olga Manuela Zelaya Mr. Reinaldo Muñoz Mr. Ángel Antonio Lainez Murillo Mrs. Sofía Cerna Mr. Jesús Humberto Márquez Valenzuela Mrs. Ana Rita Bulnes Soleno Hungary Mr. Gábor Bródi Mr. György Könczei Ms. Krisztina Aranyi Iceland Mr. Hjálmar W. Hannesson Mr. Ragnar G. Kristjansson Mr. Oskar Pall Oskarsson Mr. Helgi Hjorvar India Indonesia Mr. Rezlan Ishar Jenie Mrs. Adiyatwide Adiwoso Asmady Mr. Jonny Sinaga Mr. Dicky Komar Mr. Bonanza Taihitu Iran (Islamic Republic of) Mr. Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi Mr. Seyed Hassan Mirfakhraie Ms. Paimaneh Hastaie Mr. Mahmoud Khani Jooyabad Mr. Mohammad Alipour Mokhtar Mr. Houssein Vafaieboroumand Iraq Ireland Mr. David J. Cooney Mr. Seán McDonald Mr. Alan Gibbons Mr. Gavan O’Leary Mr. James McCaffrey Mr. James Kingston Ms. Sandra Smith Mr. Nigel Brander Mrs. Bridget Mary Brander

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Israel Ms. Dina Feldman Ms. Dina Loebel Ms. Henia Schwartz Ms. Meirav Eilon Shahar Ms. Ady Schonmann Italy Mr. Aldo Mantovani Mr. Stefano Gatti Mr. Urbano Stenta Mrs. Ida Collu Mrs. Serena Corazza Mr. Giampiero Griffo Mr. Pietro Barbieri Mr. Ilario Stocchero Mr. Aaron Rudner Mrs. Yaroslava Khanas Mr. Giuliano Giovinazzo Ms. Claudia Giovinazzo Jamaica Mr. Floyd Morris Mrs. Faith Innerarity Ms. Netricia Miller Mrs. Ariel Bowen

Japan Mr. Shinichi Kitaoka Mr. Yasushi Takase Ms. Yoriko Suzuki Ms. Shoko Haruki Ms. Tomoko Nakamura Mr. Tsuyoshi Yukawa Ms. Megue Nakazawa Mr. Yoshiyuki Ebina Mr. Norimitsu Matsuura Mr. Tetsuya Kusano Ms. Akitsu Kida Mr. Toshihiro Higashi Mr. Takashi Okubo Ms. Satomi Okagaki Mr. Makoto Hashizume Jordan Mr. Hussein Abu el Ruz H.R.H. Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein Mr. Basel Hourani Mr. Mu’utaz Hyassat Ms. Samar el Zebdah

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Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lao People’s Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Mr. Ahmed Rida Sherif Mr. Adel G. M. Alakhder

Liechtenstein Mr. Christian Wenaweser Mr. Stefan Barriga Mr. Dominik Marxer

Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar

Malawi Mr. Brown Beswick Chimphamba Mrs. Jane Asani-Ndelemani Malaysia Mr. Hamidon Ali Mr. Harjeet Singh Hardev Singh Ms. Yeoh Joo Ai Mr. Muhammad Rushdan bin Mohamad Mr. Westmoreland Palon Mr. Mah Hassan Haji Omar Mrs. Foziah Mat Zain Maldives Mali Mr. Cheick Sidi Diarra Mr. Koulou Fané Mr. Drissa Cissé Mr. Ismaila Konaté Mr. Issa Konfourou Malta

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Marshall Islands Mr. Alfred Capelle Mr. Biuma Samson Ms. Samantha Singson Mauritania Ms. M’Bark Mint Abdel Jelil Mauritius Mrs. Sheilabai Bappoo Mr. Somduth Soborun Mr. Israhyananda Dhalladoo Mr. Coomara Pyaneandee Mr. Subhas Gujadhur Mr. Jaysen Ramasamy Mexico Micronesia (Federated States of) Monaco Mongolia Montenegro

Morocco Mr. El Mostafa Sahel Mr. Hamid Chabar Mrs. Fatima Baroudi Mr. Mohammed Amin Yakoubi Mr. Mohamed El Khadiri Mr. Mohamed Mostapha Raissouni

Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Mr. Martin Andjaba Ms. Batseba-Unomuinjo Katjiuongua Mr. David Thomas Nauru Nepal Netherlands Mr. Roeland Böcker Ms. Regien Aalders Mr. Wim Bel Ms. Marianne Kroes Mr. Wouter den Ouden Ms. Hedda Samson New Zealand

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Nicaragua Mr. Eduardo J. Sevilla Somoza Mr. Mario H. Castellón Duarte Mr. Raúl Jarquin Arguello Mr. Mauricio A. Solórzano Mrs. Leyla Suad Marcos Frech Mrs. Rosa Salgado Ms. Amalia Auxiliadora Frech Niger Nigeria Norway Mr. Ola Brevik Ms. Guri Hesflått Mr. Christian B. Kielland Ms. Grete Hjermstad Ms. Margaret S. Ramberg Mr. Jonas Jølle Ms. Meena Syed Oman Pakistan

Palau Panama Mrs. Mary Morgan-Moss Mr. Aníbal Miranda Ms. Eneida Ferrer Papua New Guinea Paraguay Mr. Eladio Loizaga Mr. Juan Alfredo Buffa Mr. Carlos José Ruckelshaussen Villarejo Peru Mr. Hugo Pereyra Ms. Romy Tincopa Ms. Katherin Pinillos Mr. Luis Miguel del Águila

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Philippines Mr. Lauro L. Baja, Jr. Mr. Aladin G. Villacorte Mr. Leslie B. Gatan Ms. Catalina L. Fermin Mrs. Marie Yvette L. Banzon Ms. Nelia R. de Jesus Mr. Felix L. de Leon Mr. Richard Arceño Mr. Lauro Purcil, Jr. Ms. Felicite Jean F. Gonzales Mr. Virgilio C. Almonte Ms. Deanna L. Gregorio Poland Ms. Beata Pęksa-Krawiec Ms. Malgorzata Kielducka Ms. Magdalena Grabianowska

Portugal Mr. João Manuel Guerra Salgueiro Ms. Sara Martins Ms. Odete Severino Ms. Ana Andreia Lourenço Marques Qatar Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser Ms. Aminah Ali Al-Suwaidi Mr. Mutlaq Majed Al-Qahtani Mr. Rashid Jassim Al-Asousi Ms. Noor Ali Hassan Abdullah Mr. Yousif Eid Al-Zaraa Mr. Abdulaziz Jassem Al-Jufairi Ms. Mariam Saleh Al-Ashqar Mr. Khaled Moubarak Al-Kawari Mr. Yasser Awadh Al-Abdullah Mr. Ghanem Ali Al-Kubaisi Mr. Yousif Abdullah Al-Nisif Mr. Jassem Mohammed Al-Hajri Mr. Abdullah Ahmed Assadah Mr. Hassan Abdullah Al-Kawari Mr. Ali Obaid Al-Sanari Mr. Ghanim Moubarak Al-Kawari Republic of Korea Republic of Moldova Romania

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Russian Federation Ms. L. N. Glebova Mr. A. M. Panov Mr. M. A. Dymochka Ms. M. O. Korunova Ms. G. N. Molchanova Mr. M. V. Musihin Mr. I. K. Belyak Mr. A. L. Zarubin Mr. A. Y. Shkolnik Mr. A. A. Nikiforov Ms. M. V. Glebova Ms. M. V. Darchieva Mr. V. Y. Zh e gl ov Mr. B. V. Chernenko Mrs. N. A. Rudchenko Mr. V. N. Ruhledev Mr. V. V. Ivanchenko Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Mr. Fawzi Bin Abdul Majeed Shobokshi Mr. Tala’at Al-Wazneh Mr. Hatem Beri Mr. Khalid Al-Wafi Mrs. Gulnar Hijazi Senegal Mr. Paul Badji Mr. Laba Cissé Diop Mr. Yatma Fall Mr. Oumar Diop Mrs. Leysa Faye Sow Serbia Ms. Sladjana Marković Mr. Bozidar Simatković Mr. Damjan Tatić Mr. Nenad Ivanisević Ms. Ana Ilić

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Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Mr. Vanu Gopala Menon Mr. Kevin Cheok Ms. Charlotte Beck Ms. Sharon Ong Mr. Charles Chew Ms. Ang Siok Hui Mr. Jamie Mervyn Lim Ms. Soon Li Fen, Esther Slovakia Mr. Dušan Matulay Mr. Peter Harmanovský Slovenia Mr. Cveto Uršič Ms. Eva Tomič Ms. Alja Klopčič Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Mr. Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo Mr. B. Palime Mr. W. Baatjies Mr. S. Makgato Mr. A. Miyeni Ms. F. Hoosen Ms. J. Doorasamy Ms. E. Mahlangu Ms. L. Pienaar Mr. C. Williams-Wynn Ms. L. Kaunda Mr. S. Mathate Ms. M. L. Hendricks Ms. M. Molamu Ms. P. Nkabinde Ms. A. Hlabela Ms. S. Mkhasibe Mr. G. Essop Ms. R. Mathivha Mr. S. Chalklen

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Spain Mr. Juan Antonio Yáñez-Barnuevo Mr. Fernando Fernández Arias Ms. Elisa de Santos Mr. Antonio García Roger Ms. Pilar Trinidad Núñez Ms. Encarnación Blanco Egido Ms. Ana María Sánchez Salcedo Ms. Ana Peláez Narváez Ms. Agustina Palacios Mr. Juan Pagola Manterola Sri Lanka Sudan Mr. Omar B. Manis Mr. Yasir Abdalla Abdelsalam Mr. Idrees Mohammed Ali Mohammed Saeed Suriname

Swaziland Mr. Phesheya M. Dlamini Ms. Petunia Lindiwe Mndebele Mr. Malungisa Agricola Dlamini Mr. Melusie Martin Masuku Ms. Sibongile Gladys Dlamini Sweden Ms. Kerstin Jansson Ms. Eva Lisskar-Dahlgren Ms. Johanna Möllerberg Ms. Anna Wrange Ms. Charlotta Schlyter Mr. Kaj Nordquist Ms. Eva Falkenberg

Switzerland Mr. Andreas Baum Mr. Christoph Spenle Ms. Natalie Kohli Syrian Arab Republic Mr. Bashar Ja’afari Ms. Feryal Hamed Ms. Warif Halabi Ms. Nisreen Baety Tajikistan

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Thailand Khunying Laxanachantorn Laohaphan Mr. Pravit Chaimongkol Mrs. Sunee Saisupatpon Mr. Monthian Buntan Mrs. Nadariya Nopakun Phromyothi Mr. Vorapun Srivoranart Ms. Lasapan Toomsawasdi The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Mr. Philip Sealy Mrs. Angela Edwards Mr. Anthony David Edghill Mr. Eden Charles Mr. Jason Clarke Tunisia Mr. Mohamed Samir Koubaa Mr. Lotfi Hdhili Mr. Imededdine Chaker Turkey Mr. Serhat Aksen Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine Mr. Viktor V. Kryzhanivsky Mrs. Nataliya Kulyk Mrs. Iryna Tarabukina Mr. Volodymyr Pekarchuk United Arab Emirates Ms. Mariam Al-Shamisi

United Kingdom of Great Britain Mr. Richard Wood and Northern Ireland Mr. Richard Light Mr. Richard Timm Ms. Vanda Kvjatkovski Ms. Kate McCleery Ms. Joanne Crabtree

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United Republic of Tanzania Mr. Tuvako N. Manongi Ms. Joyce Kafanabo Mr. Bujiku Philip Sakila Mr. Riziki Said Lulida Mr. George Akim Kameka Mr. N’nyapule Rashid Madai Mr. Lukago Madulu Semela Mr. Phalemon Gasto Rujwahula United States of America Mr. Mark P. Lagon Mr. Steven Hill Ms. Silvia Eiriz Ms. Robinsue Frohboese Mr. Rick Grennell Mr. Christopher J. Hickey Ms. Miriam Hughes Mr. Tracy Justesen Ms. Linda L. Lum Ms. Stephanie Ortoleva Ms. Laurie Shestack Mr. John Wodatch Uruguay Mr. Elbio Rosselli Mrs. Dianela Pi Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Viet Nam Mr. Le Luong Minh Mr. Nguyen Tat Thanh Mr. Pham Hai Anh

Yemen Mr. Abdullah M. Alsaidi Mr. Mohamed Nasser Humaid Mr. Abdulkader Alsubeihi Mr. Abdullah Ahmed Al-Hamdani Ms. Hoda Ali Ahmed Ms. Azzah Salem Al-Hajj Zambia Mrs. Irene B. M. Tembo Mrs. Patricia C. Kondolo Mr. Bernard M. Kang’ombe Mr. G. F. Makambwe Mr. S. D. Manda

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Zimbabwe Ms. Sophia Nyamudeza Mr. Meshack Kitchen

Non-member State

Holy See Archbishop Celestino Migliore Reverend Robert Sterling Meyer Mr. Lucas Swanepoel Mr. Douglas Silva

Entities having received a standing invitation to participate as observers in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly and maintaining permanent observer missions at Headquarters

Palestine Ms. Nadya Rasheed Mr. Yussef Kanaan

United Nations system of organizations

International Labour Ms. Barbara Murray Organization Mr. Luca Azzoni United Nations Development Ms. Elisabet Eklund Programme — Kenya World Health Organization Mr. Federico Montero

Organizations having received a standing invitation to participate in the sessions and work of the General Assembly as observers

League of Arab States Mr. Ibrahim Gaafar Al-Souri Mr. Abdullah Al-Ganahi

National human rights institutions

Asia Pacific Forum Ms. Anuradha Mohit Mr. Andrew Byrnes Mr. John Johnson Mr. Kieren Fitzpatrick Canadian Human Rights Mr. Harvey Goldberg Commission Ms. Karen Izzard Ms. Carol McDonald Ms. Betty Dion Consultative Council of Human Mr. Mohammed Raissouni Rights (Morocco) Mr. Mohammed El Khadiri Disability Inclusive Society Mr. Sahr Yillia (Sierra Leone)

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Irish Human Rights Commission Mr. Gavin McSpadden Ms. Suzanne Egan Mr. Maurice Manning National Consultative Ms. Stephanie Madeleine Djian Commission of Human Rights (France) National Human Rights Ms. Chung Yeon-soon Commission of the Republic of Mr. Choi Jin Korea Mr. Cho Hyoung-Seok New Zealand Human Rights Ms. Robyn Hunt Commission Office of the Disability Mr. Rickard Alvarsson Ombudsman (Sweden) Mr. Torbjōrn Andersson Ms. Luisa Fidan Mr. Lars Lööw Ms. Anna Nilsson Ms. Laine Nõu Strömgren Ms. Monica Ragnar Öberg Ms. Anna Schölin Ms. Hanna Simberg Ms. Kristina Wassėn Ms. Amelie Wigzell Mr. Hans Yngwe

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